2017 2023 Air Pollution Natural Resources 
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APRIL 10, 2023
.” — Todd Kim, assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. The department, in a civil action , is seeking penalties and cleanup costs from Norfolk Southern following the derailment of a company train on February 3, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023. By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. Meanwhile, residents and rescue crews continued to feel sick, despite assurances from officials that the air pollution posed no health threat.
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PA Environment Daily
APRIL 16, 2023
The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians. within one-half mile).
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 19, 2023
In response, Potter Township passed a resolution in 2017 requiring Shell to perform an exterior lighting study. Photos: Top- What Shell said the lighting would look like in 2017; Light scattering today at the Shell plan; Bottom: Orange glow from emergency flaring and close up of flaring glow.)
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 21, 2023
On March 21, the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DCNR’s proposed FY 2023-24 budget request again resulted in a discussion of increasing drilling in or under State Forest and Park land and other typical issues covered year in and year out. Read more here. Read more here. Shapiro’s Budget Address as prepared.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 29, 2024
Before April 4, Lawson said she did not have wastewater dumped on her road for more than six years after the Environmental Hearing Board case she brought a successful challenge to the DEP road dumping approval process in 2017-18. Read more here.
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Woods, who previously worked at the EPA and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), holds a doctorate degree in environmental health engineering and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University. But Big Ag pollutes more than water. And that pollution has compounding consequences.
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